Conflicts
This was the first major military conflict between the West and the Communist in Asia
What is the Korean War?
What country was trying to contain communism?
What is the U.S. ?
This Cold War doctrine argued that if either the United States or the Soviet Union launched a nuclear attack, the other would retaliate with equal or greater force, guaranteeing catastrophic destruction for both sides.
What is Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD)?
This policy of “openness,” introduced by Gorbachev, encouraged public discussion and reduced censorship.
What is glasnost?
Created in 1955, this military alliance united the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellite states in response to NATO.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
What event caused the world to come as close to nuclear war as possible?
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis.
This event in 1948–49 demonstrated U.S. commitment to containment by airlifting supplies to a blockaded city.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
What is the name of the place where exiles tried to overthrow Fidel Castro?
What is the Bay of Pigs?
This 1970s policy aimed to ease tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union through diplomacy and arms control.
What is détente?
It is the organization that constitutes a system of collective democratic defense whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?
What was the second major military conflict between the West and the Communists in Asia?
What is the Vietnam War?
This policy was instilled to fight communism and promote democracy in the world in 1947.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
This type of bomb, first tested by the United States in 1952 and by the Soviet Union in 1953, was far more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped in WWII.
What is the hydrogen bomb?
This 1989 event dramatically symbolized the weakening of Soviet control in Europe.
What is the fall of the Berlin Wall?
This event marked the end of the period of Detente.
What is ideological conflict?
This U.S. economic initiative, launched in 1948, was designed not only to rebuild war-torn Europe but also to limit the appeal of communism by stabilizing economies and strengthening democratic governments.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This set of agreements, also signed in 1972, placed limits on the number of ICBMs, SLBMs, and strategic deployment sites that both the U.S. and USSR could possess.
What is SALT I?
These two reform policies introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev—one promoting openness and the other restructuring—unintentionally weakened government control and helped speed the collapse of the Soviet Union.
What are glasnost and perestroika?
Formed in 1949, this Soviet-led economic organization coordinated trade and development among Eastern Bloc nations, tying their economies closely to Moscow and limiting their independence.
What is COMECON (Council for Mutual Economic Assistance)?
The Marshall Plan, the Truman Doctrine, and the fight against communism can be labeled forms of this
What is containment?
Signed in 1991 between the United States and the Soviet Union, this landmark agreement required deep cuts in strategic nuclear warheads and delivery systems, becoming one of the most significant nuclear disarmament treaties in history.
What is the START I Treaty (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty)?
A combination of economic stagnation, Gorbachev’s reforms of glasnost and perestroika, the failed August 1991 coup, and the independence movements sweeping through the Eastern Bloc all contributed to this major 1991 event that marked the end of the Soviet Union.
What is the dissolution of the USSR?
The 1947 National Security Act set up this agency to collect information on foreign governments, corporations, and individuals for government purposes such as safety and led the failed Bay of Bigs Invasion.
What is Central Intelligence Agency CIA?